Red Hat NETWORK SATELLITE SERVER 4.1.0, Installation Manual

Page: 71 / 80

Chapter 8. Maintenance 67
Figure 8-3. User Delete Confirmation
Many other options exist for managing users. You can find instructions for them in the
RHN website chapter of the RHN Reference Guide .
8.8. Automating Synchronization
Manually synchronizing the RHN Satellite Server repository with Red Hat Network can be
a time-intensive task. United States business hours tend to be the peak usage time for Red
Hat Network, so synchronization at that time may be slow. For these reasons, Red Hat en-
courages you to automate synchronization at other times to better balance load and ensure
quick synchronization. Continental United States business hours are roughly 8:00 AM to
9:00 PM EST (UTC -5), due to four time zones, Monday through Friday. These hours may
vary seasonally by one hour. Further, Red Hat strongly recommends that synchronization
occur randomly for best performance.
This automation can be set easily by the addition of a simple cron job. To do this, edit the
crontab as root:
crontab -e